Dunbar v. American Telephone & Telegraph Co.
Illinois Supreme Court
Appeal from the Branch Appellate Court for the First District;—heard in that court on appeal from the Circuit Court of Cook county; the Hon. J. W. Mack, Judge, presiding.
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Appeal from the Branch Appellate Court for the First District;—heard in that court on appeal from the Circuit Court of Cook county; the Hon. J. W. Mack, Judge, presiding. On June 5,1903, appellants, Francis W. Dunbar, Kempster B. Miller, George L. Burlingame, Joseph C. Belden, Amanda W. Belden and Anna W. Pool, minority stockholders of the Kellogg Switchboard and Supply Company, filed their bill for relief in the circuit court of Cook county against the appellees, American Telephone and Telegraph Company, Western Electric Company, Kellogg Switchboard and Supply Company, Milo G. Kellogg,…
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Wilkin
The theory of the original bill is, that the American Telephone and Telegraph Company of New York (called the American company) purchased a majority of the stock of the Kellogg Switchboard and Supply Company of this State, (known in the record as the Kellogg company,) for the purpose of suppressing competition and creating a monopoly in itself of the telephone business. The ground of the demurrer was that the allegations of the bill were insufficient to sustain the cause of action, and that complainants, being minority stockholders in the Kellogg company, could not legally maintain it.
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